Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Efforts to manage emissions demands major reductions in our use of fossil fuels. A 2019 study by the International Energy Agency (IEA) showed that fossil fuels accounted for almost 70 percent of global energy demand. percent per year since 2010, to 2.6 In 2019, total greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high of 59.1

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Airbus studied hydrogen aircraft in the 2000s but shelved their plans in 2010 due to technical issues that are yet to be resolved. fertiliser production) Satisfy new demand for hydrogen for trucks, ships… Satisfy new demand for hydrogen for production ofe-fuels for aviation. Grey, blue and green hydrogen.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

Greenpeace Italy and Re:Common have alleged in their climate lawsuit — Italy’s first — that despite knowing at least as early as 1970 that burning fossil fuels posed a serious climate risk, Eni went on to promote “natural” –- or methane – gas as a safe energy source for decades. the spokesperson stated.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The findings further fuelled the cautiously optimistic mood that has built up during the first week of talks at COP26, which has seen a raft of new net zero pledges from emerging economies and a series of global deals to increase flows of climate finance, better protect forests, accelerate clean tech deployment, and curb methane emissions.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 9, 2022

1] However as shown in Figure 1, when emissions from electricity generation are reallocated to the demand sectors, the GHG emissions breakdown by sector is as follows: 35 percent for transportation, 34 percent for buildings, 19 percent for industry, and 10 percent for agriculture. NDC of 50 to 52 percent below 2010 emissions by 2030. [3]

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 25, 2019

Yet the material itself did feel fairly stale, taking 2010 as its benchmark year while looking forward to 2050. Current trends are sliding to a nearly 600 million-hectare “land gap,” between global agricultural land area in 2010, and expected agricultural expansion by 2050. That’s an area nearly twice the size of India.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries. Livestock methane emissions are also rising in some of these countries.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

This pad appears to be the first of its kind in Pennsylvania to go through a formal permitting process for the practice, which is gaining prominence throughout the Keystone State, home to hundreds of thousands of abandoned wells and rich methane stores. EQT was initially permitted for the well pad in 2010, DEP records show.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Yet, rather than meet the demands of environmentalism, many corporations chose to hide dirty operations under a green sheen. BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster illustrates this point. Burger King committed the sin of lesser two evils in July 2020, with their advertised “reduced methane beef”.

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Business Green

JUNE 14, 2022

To achieve this the IPCC calculates that annual global emissions of CO2 must be reduced to 45 per cent below their 2010 level by 2030, which was roughly 1.9 To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C gigatons of CO2 annually (GtCO2/year). Nature is no longer on our side. The choice is ours.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2020

To keep temperature increases under that critical threshold, carbon emissions must be halved by the end of the decade compared to 2010 levels, according to the analysts, and all greenhouse gas emissions cut by roughly 40 per cent in the same time frame. The five broad, interconnected "shifts" that could steer the globe on to a 1.5-degree

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Shell, which was identified as the second worst offender in the study, currently channels 90 percent of its long-term investments into fossil fuels, according to recent analysis, and between 2010 and 2018, it was reported to have dedicated just 1 percent of its investments to sources of low-carbon energy such as wind and solar.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: Julie Dermansky Air Products plans to build a manufacturing complex near Burnside, a small town in Ascension Parish, that will transform the methane in natural gas into ammonia and blue hydrogen while using technology to capture up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions created in the process. Retired Lt. I’d like my life back.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Overall, soil degradation was calculated in 2010 to cost the UK £1.2bn every year. The climate impact of farming practices are significant too - in the UK, agriculture and land-use are responsible for around 12 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, including almost half of the country's methane emissions.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As always, the venture community is eager to participate in the blooming opportunity this demand represents. To stay below the 1.5ºC warming threshold , we have to cut global emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, meaning we have just under a decade. and a growing appetite for the solutions to do something about it. million.

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Business Green

MAY 4, 2021

It galvanised an unprecedented global youth and activist movement demanding action compatible with the 1.5? track is feasible but would require halving global emissions by 2030 compared to 2010 and reaching net zero emissions by mid-century. the extent to which non-CO2 greenhouse emissions such as methane are reduced.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As was noted by the UK's COP26 Presidency, these agreements are far from perfect and will certainly not satisfy the demands of every nation, campaigner or business, but that was always the likely result of a process that aims to achieve consensus through complex, multilateral negotiations. So, in order to stand a chance of keeping "1.5

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Energy Innovation

MAY 9, 2022

Using New York City as a case study, the authors evaluated household energy demand and air conditioning use, taking into account weather projections and spatial differences in urban climate change. compared existing rooftop solar policies and solar adopter income from 2010 to 2018 in more than 70 percent of the U.S. Ortiz et al.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

After the Army Corps of Engineers awarded key permits for the MBSD project on December 19, 2022 , two nonprofit organizations entrusted with funds meant to reverse environmental damage caused by the 2010 BP oil spill made funding available for the project. Federal and state trustees approved $2.26

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

The three representatives all said there had been widespread recognition at the Dubai summit that agriculture was a “solution” to climate change, despite livestock accounting for over 30 percent of anthropogenic methane emissions. The long-awaited FAO Global roadmap followed. This is especially true in the U.S,

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

At this ag-ed powerhouse, popular courses include Food Systems and Intro to Sustainable Agriculture, and researchers are working to enhance carbon sequestration through crushed-rock soil amendments and devising seaweed-based cattle feed amendments to slash dairy cows’ methane emissions. How cool is that?

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The situation illustrates the intermittency problem with renewables like wind and solar power and how outages can increase demand for fossil fuel generation,” Energy In Depth , a project of the Independent Petroleum Association of America that is run by FTI Consulting , wrote about Europe’s gas price crisis on September 22.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The loss of Russian imports caused a disruption in gasoline supplies, and later diesel production during a period of high diesel demand. At its high point in 2010, the SPR level reached 726.6 Much of what we imported from Russia was either finished products or partially processed oil. million barrels. Keystone Pipeline leak.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

What you see in that report is a demand for a colossal expansion of CO2 infrastructure,” Muffett said, “even while acknowledging that it’s fundamentally not economic to build it even with the massive federal subsidies that are already flowing into it.”. All told, the entire U.S. industrial sector emitted 822.4

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

A confidential October 1989 Shell publication titled “ SCENARIOS 1989 – 2010 ” outlines a high-emissions “global mercantilism” scenario in which average global temperatures rise by “considerably more” than 1.5 degrees Celsius. The report warned that “many species of trees, plants, animals and insects would not be able to move and adapt.”

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As global oil prices fluctuated over the following years, carbon capture was paused at the plant during periods when CO2 demand for oil extraction dropped. Century Gas Processing Plant Operator: Occidental Petroleum, 2010-present Location: East of Fort Stockton, Texas, USA Stated maximum capacity: 8.4

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 1, 2021

With FERC approval and the demand for LNG increasing globally, the project is well-positioned to add new customer commitments,” Sailor said in a statement announcing the green light for Gulf Run. In June, about 15 percent of the gas produced in the U.S. came from the Haynesville, EIA data shows. Shake-Up At FERC. This decision is a BIG.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Ardern is being watched closely : Her administration has been criticized for being lenient on reducing biogenic methane from agricultural production — notably dairy cattle and sheep — which accounts for almost half of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions and roughly 6.6 percent of its GDP.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2020

In 2010 Harris became the first Black woman to be elected as California attorney general, before her election to the Senate in 2016 where she carved out a reputation as an influential member of the Judiciary Committee, probing the many scandals to engulf the Trump administration. "As

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2021

Oil and gas production accounted for by private companies has more than trebled in the past ten years, from eight percent in 2010 to 30 percent in 2020. Buffett has also helped fuel the development of oil and gas projects over the years, including betting big on the future of fracked oil in the US’s controversial Permian Basin.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2021

It also predicts that Biden will introduce new rules to target methane leaks from oil and gas operations, curb pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and gas from landfills, and strengthen climate risk reporting requirements for all corporates. per cent of the nation's total available installed generating capacity compared to 19.97

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